I was delighted to be the feature photographer of "Cleveland Shaping a Third Century" It is a very fine collective body of work that highlights many of the great achievements of the Cleveland community, it's people and work ethic that has truly made Cleveland, Ohio a model for other cities on the rise.

My photographs are a compalition of many years of work and they reflect God's marvelous light on Cleveland and its people & industry and midwest splendor. Large colorful photos capture many great attractions Cleveland has to offer.

This is a wonderful book for an office, den or family room. It certainly will delight anyone who has an affection for Cleveland, Ohio.

This book was the most exciting book I have ever read in my life!!! I think that EVERYONE should read this book, or you are really missing out.

George Condon coined the phrase "The Best Kept Secret" that has since become synonymous with Cleveland (no longer the Mistake on the Lake!). This book is his masterpiece, a compilation of history, familiar names and faces, and the toungue in cheek humanism that made his column a household institution in Cleveland for a quarter century. This book may be out of print, but it is worth the time and energy to get your hands on it.

This is a great book, I reccomend it to anyone who likes true stories of death, accidents, and murder. I like this book because it contains all true stories and they are all in my hometown Cleveland Ohio. Full of great facts and pictures as well as great stories.

Give good for start to the end of couple life.

Les Roberts' Cleveland settings were what attracted me to him in the first place: I went to college near Cleveland, and have family there. But having been attracted, I found myself delighted as well: this is a great series of detective novels...good plot, interesting characters, and some very masterful writing. I recommend the whole series--highly.

A stroll down Euclid Avenue in the Jazz Age and beyond, at a time it was packed with top-tier restaurants, ornate theaters, and appealing stores, becomes pleasant in the hands of James Toman and Richard Karberg. Toman and Karberg have worked together before; they produced a wildly popular pair of books about Cleveland's venerable Silver Grille restaurant.

Toman--the author, coauthor, or editor of around 20 books of local interest--puts his usual strengths on display here. He chocks his books full of appealing photographs, combing through the archives, one suspects, to get just the right ones. The text is tightly written, carefully edited, and filled with anecdote, but it lets the pictures do much of the talking.

Cleveland is a decent respectable city of half a million now. Our art museum and orchestra are nationally prominent. Our hospitals, particularly UH and The Clinic, are among the country's best. But there was a time we were a million strong and on the grow, the future opening giddily before us. We were home to Rockefellers and a burgeoning industrial giant, and Euclid Avenue became a microcosm of that success spiced with a bit of "Great Gatsby"-style hedonism. To dip into this book is to date a "Sophisticated Lady," to feast the senses on the mink stoles, early film classics, and luscious cuisine of Cleveland's golden age.

This is a young girl's book. Words fail as a medium for describing how sweet it is.

great book for any gardener interested in learning more about permaculture and sustainable gardening, not just for arid and tropcal zones

A basketball game in the NBA is 48 minutes long, right? Wrong. There is so much more drama behind the scenes and so much more at stake than another victory in every NBA game that the average fan is never entitled to witness and experience but this book does the best job I've ever seen in taking you there. It doesn't hurt that a classic confrontation between the then-mighty Celtics and the upstart Cavaliers is the matchup taken into focus by this great literary effort of showing what life in the NBA is like (at least during the 1980s). No personal fouls here... just a sure shot for all basketball fans who are also bookworms at heart and are not limited to enjoying the game of basketball on the television or on the court. Like I said, nothing but net..